"...to big for the big slide."

This past Saturday Xander and I went to the Rolling Hills water park. My point and shoot is broken so I didn't get any pics.

Rachel and I took him last year but he was still afraid of everything but the little sprays of water that shoot out of the ground in the kiddie pool area.

This trip he loved everything but the big slide. He loved having his own tube in the lazy river, insisted that I take him repeatedly into the wave pool despite my initial nausea and ran gleefully around the sand pit even though I'm sure his feet had to be burning up.

His fear of the big slide, I hate to say, is not an innate fear. He was eager to try it out and I wasn't aware that you had to go down one at a time until we reached the top of the line. I was going to forgo the whole thing when a nice lady that was ahead of us suggested that she let her husband and daughter go first, then I could slide down so I could catch Xander, then she would stay with Xander in case he got cold feet and would walk him back down if that happened.

I thought that sounded like a good plan, so down went the nice ladies husband, down went the nice ladies daughter, down went the bad decision making Erica.

We're all waiting at the bottom of the slide. The nice ladies husband, daughter and me....waiting to see my little turkey come down the slide. Waiting.....Waiting.....

Then we see the nice lady (whose name was Maria, by the way) with Xander in her lap coming down the slide smiling away.

I thought the life guard said only one at a time?

He did, but at the moment I was less concerned with that.

So, here they come sliding down the big slide. The nice lady and Xander. Then they get stuck right at the end. She lets Xander go so that I can catch him and about 3 feet before he gets to the end I see a man come zooming down the slide. He plows into the nice lady who then plows into Xander and all 3 of them crash past me and plunk under the water.

And that is why Xander does not like the big slide.

He took a needed break and cuddle after that, then was up and ready to go back in the wave pool and lazy river all the while reminding me that he was "to big for the big slide". Which translates to " to small for the big slide".

:)